Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:56:11 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation" |
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On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:59:23AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > In addition to what you've said, I have only one proposal: we revert > > the whole crap and do it again, this time nice and clean in tip. It'll > > stay there as long as it has to. No half-arsed commit messages, no > > misunderstood crap, no lala code f*ckery. Whatever it takes, as long as > > it takes. > > And here it is: > > --- > From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:57:56 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation" > > This reverts commit f47233c2d34f243ecdaac179c3408a39ff9216a7. > > The main reason for the revert is that in order to make this work, we > need non-trivial changes to the x86 boot code which we didn't manage to > get done in time for merging. > > And even if we did, they would've been too risky so instead of rushing > things and break booting 4.1 on boxes left and right, we will be very > strict and conservative and will take our time with this to fix and test > it properly. > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Agreed. Let's work on a better refresh for 4.1+. The fix attempts were quite chaotic.
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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